Final Cut Studio 2: Compressor 3 - Technical Specifications

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• Final Cut Studio 2 - Technical Specifications

Minimum Requirements to Install All Final Cut Studio Applications

• A Macintosh computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, or Intel Xeon processor

• 1GB of RAM

• An AGP or PCI Express Quartz Extreme graphics card (Final Cut Studio is not compatible with integrated Intel graphics processors)

• A display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher

• Mac OS X v10.4.9 or Mac OS X v10.5.5 or later

• QuickTime 7.1.6 or later

• A DVD drive for installation

Available Disk Space

• 4GB of disk space required to install all applications (Final Cut Pro, Color, DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Motion, Cinema Tools, LiveType, Compressor, and Apple Qmaster)

• Additional 55GB required to install all optional templates, content, and tutorials (may be installed on separate disks):

• 9GB for DVD Studio Pro content

• 8GB for Motion templates and tutorial media

• 24GB for Soundtrack Pro audio content

• 12GB for LiveFonts and LiveType animated elements and templates

• 2GB for Apple Pro Training Final Cut Studio Tutorials media

The following are recommended for all applications:

• 2GB of RAM when working with compressed HD and uncompressed SD sources

• 4GB of RAM when working with uncompressed HD sources

• A display with 1280 x 1024 resolution or higher

• 4 GB of hard disc space is required to install all of the Final Cut Studio 2 applications

• An additional 55 GB of hard disc space is required to install all optional templates, content, and tutorials (may be installed on separate discs):

  • 9 GB for DVD Studio Pro content

  • 8 GB for Motion templates and tutorial media

  • 24 GB for Soundtrack Pro audio content

  • 12 GB for LiveFonts and LiveType animated elements and templates

  • 2 GB for Apple Pro Training Final Cut Studio Tutorials media

High-Performance Encoding

• H.264 Apple devices, web, mobile devices, and HD DVD

• Compatible I-frame insertion

• Full QuickTime support

• MPEG-2 encoding

• MPEG-1 encoding

• MPEG-4 encoding

• Distributed encoding with segmentation options

• Two-pass VBR encoding for MPEG-2

• Provides Dolby-certified encoding to Dolby Digital Professional AC-3 format

• Accepts QuickTime (single-channel or multichannel), AIFF, Sound Designer, and WAV files

• Advanced chaptering for AppleTV and podcasting

• Closed caption support for QuickTime and MPEG-2

• Scaling and down-converting

• Standards conversions

• Retiming

• Preview with split-screen comparison

• High-quality image processing

• More than 100 presets included

• Automated encoding with droplets

• Automatic and custom cropping

• Automatic and custom padding

• 14 image processing filters: brightness/contrast; highlight, midtone, and shadow color corrections; deinterlacing; gamma correction; noise removal; sharpen edge; black/white restore; watermark; text overlay; timecode generator; fade in/out; and letterbox

• Four audio filters: dynamic range; peak limiter; Apple: AUGraphicEQ and fade in/out

• Post encoded files to iDisk or FTP

• Reverse Telecine

• Deinterlacing

• Droplets for automation

Dolby Digital Professional Encoding

• Dolby-certified encoding to Dolby Digital Professional AC-3 format

• Accepts QuickTime (single-channel or multichannel), AIFF, Sound Designer, and WAV format sound files for encoding

• Support for all channel formats from mono to 5.1 surround sound

• Automatically creates 2.0 or 5.1 based on number of channels in the source media file

• Confidence decoding for preview of AC-3 files

Video Filters

• BlackWhite Restore

• Brightness and Contrast

• Color Correct Highlights

• Color Correct Midtones

• Color Correct Shadows

• Deinterlacing

• Fade In/Out

• Gamma Correction

• Letterbox

• Noise Removal

• Sharpen Edge

• Text Overlay

• Timecode Generator

• Watermark (Image, animated with QuickTime or Motion files)

Audio Filters

• Dynamic Range

• Peak Limiter

• Apple: AUGraphicEQ

• Fade In/Out

Input Video Formats

• QuickTime

  • Apple ProRes 422

  • Animation

  • BMP

  • Video

  • Cinepak

  • DV

  • DVCPRO

  • DVCPRO HD

  • H.261

  • H.263

  • H.264

  • JPEG 2000

  • M-JPEG A

  • M-JPEG B

  • Photo JPEG

  • Planar RGB

  • PNG

  • Sorenson 2

  • Sorenson 3

  • TGA

  • Uncompressed 8- and 10-bit video

• MPEG-1

• MPEG-2

  • Elementary

  • Program

• MPEG-4

• AVI

Input Audio Formats

• QuickTime

  • AIFF

  • Sound Designer

  • WAV

• Dolby Digital (AC-3)

• Soundtrack Pro STAP

Over 100 Presets

• Apple Devices

• Podcasting

• Advanced Format Conversions

• Audio Formats

• SD DVD

• HD DVD

• Motion Graphics

• Web

• Modify Apple presets

• Create your own

Apple Qmaster

• Provides distributed encoding and rendering for DVD Studio Pro (via Compressor) and Shake and image-based rendering applications

• Distribute jobs to up to 10 nodes

• Segment jobs to multiple computers or send complete movies to single nodes

• AutoCluster provides easy setup for unmanaged services

• Create virtual render farms by turning on services to split processor performance

• Control managed services with Qadministrator

• Scheduling allows additional Mac systems to be used during off-hours

• Specify cluster storage location to be on local disk or Xsan

• Note: AVI, 3G, Dolby Digital, and AIFF cannot be segmented to multiple systems

Output Video Formats

• AVI

• QuickTime

  • Animation

  • Apple Pixlet

  • BMP

  • Video

  • Cinepak

  • DV

  • DVCPRO

  • H.261

  • H.263

  • H.264

  • JPEG 2000

  • M-JPEG A

  • M-JPEG B

  • Photo JPEG

  • Planar RGB

  • PNG

  • Sorenson 2

  • Sorenson 3

  • TGA

  • Video

• MPEG-1

• MPEG-2

  • Elementary

  • Transport

  • Program

• MPEG-4

  • M4V

  • M4A

  • MP4

• Sequential TIFF and TGA

• 3G (3GPP)

Output Audio Formats

• QuickTime

  • AIFF (PCM)

  • AAC

  • Alaw 2:1

  • Dolby Digital Professional

  • IMA 4:1

  • Linear PCM

  • MACE 3:1

  • MACE 6:1 QDesign Music 2

  • Qualcomm PureVoice

  • uLAW 2:1

• Dolby Digital (AC-3) 2.0 and 5.1 surround sound

• MP3